Felicia's Journey"
- A tightly woven psychological thriller by acclaimed writer William Trevor. "A book so brilliant that it compels you to stay up all night galloping through to the end". (" Daily Mail"). This title is winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award & Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. ' You're beautiful ' Johnny told her. So full of hope seventeen-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover & tell him she is pregnant. Desperately searching for Johnny in the bleak post-industrial Midlands she is instead found by Mr Hilditch a strange & lonely man a collector & befriender of homeless young girls..." Immensely readable. The plot twist is both sinister & affecting & so skilfully done that you remember why authors had plot twists in the first place". (Philip Hensher " Guardian"). "A masterpiece. You read & are dazzled. It has one of the most memorable & convincing most sinister & terrifying of characters created in the modern novel". (Susan Hill). Readers of " The Story of Lucy Gault" & " Love & Summer" will adore " Felicia's Journey". It will also be cherished by readers of Colm Toibin & William Boyd. William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown County Cork. He has written eighteen novels & novellas & hundreds of short stories for which he has won a number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award the Whitbread Book of the Year Award & the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. His books in Penguin are: " After Rain"; "A Bit on the Side"; " Bodily Secrets"; " Cheating at Canasta"; " The Children of Dynmouth"; " The Collected Stories" (Volumes One & Two); " Death in Summer"; " Felicia's Journey"; " Fools of Fortune"; " The Hill Bachelors"; " Love & Summer"; " The Mark-2 Wife"; " Selected Stories"; " The Story of Lucy Gault" & " Two Lives"."